Denver West High School – The Denver Post

How Denver West football changed its culture under Cristobal Velasquez’s watch: ‘Either you’re with it or you’re not’

November 1, 2025 at 1:58 p.m.

The excuse was so unfathomable that Cristobal Velasquez was stunned silent.

March 8, 2025 at 3:57 p.m.

Jeison Urbina-Mancia, 18, and Gerardo Martinez Navarette, 21, were arrested Saturday on suspicion of attempted...

March 8, 2025 at 3:40 p.m.

Officers responded to a shooting in the 800 block of Elati Street at 2:42 p.m....

February 2, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

With roughly three weeks left before the end of the Colorado prep basketball regular season,...

November 9, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

The superintendent packaged the consolidation as a larger part of DPS鈥檚 efforts to respond to...

June 12, 2023 at 1:39 p.m.

Divisions have erupted on the board as members disagree on whether to put police back...

January 8, 2023 at 6:03 a.m.

Luck was on Daniela Uriarte's side in 2010 when she entered the Denver Public Schools...

January 27, 2021 at 10:25 a.m.

Midway through the 2020-2021 academic year, uncertainty about COVID-19 and its impact on school operations...

September 17, 2020 at 10:31 a.m.

Denver police shot and killed three people over the last week and on Wednesday gave...

September 10, 2020 at 1:23 p.m.

A man shot Wednesday night by Denver police near West High School has died.